PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior Business Analyst/ Business System Analyst with experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• SDLC experience includes: requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing deployment, release and maintenance on Agile - SCRUM and Waterfall Development Environment.
• Strong skills in defining concise documentation including product business requirements, system requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, and requirement traceability matrix.
• Expertise in facilitating and coordinating Joint Application Development (JAD), Joint Application Requirement sessions (JAR) with exceptional interpersonal and conflict resolving skills.
• Experiencing leading business partners, stakeholders and development team members in the process of analyzing business requirements and developing solutions aligned with business and IT strategies.
• Work extensively with the team to meet the business requirements, create prototypes and analyze workflow.
• Understands validation concepts in order to produce documentation for validated systems.
• Experience running Scrum with JIRA, knowledge and experience with Agile techniques such as Automated Testing, User Stories, and Continuous Integration.
• Maintain and Review Change Requests (CR) and related documents for the CR.
• Expertise in new product manual documentation.
• Solid knowledge in RDBMS, OLTP, ETL, OLAP, and Data Warehousing Concepts.
• Expertise in implementing CMMI, ITIL standard processes and procedures.
• Exhibit strong analytical ability during Functional Testing, Regression Testing and UAT Testing.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the capability to present and articulate complex concepts
• Exceptional communicator and relationship builder.

TOOLS: / TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

CM/Requirement Tools: Github, Jenkins, MS Visio, HP ALM, Quality Center, SharePoint

Programming Language : JAVA, SQL

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server

Database Development Tools: SQL Plus, SQL Developer

508 Compliance Testing Tools: JAWS, WAVE

Operating System: Windows and Unix

Applications: SharePoint, MS Office, Basalmiq

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Business System Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and identify problems, research alternatives, create presentations, test to confirm, and implement solutions for defined business processes.
• Works with clients, stakeholders and business owners to produce requirements, determine feasibility, analyze requirements and recommend design solution options.
• Document gap analysis, application configuration, and deployment.
• Define detailed stories with applicable acceptance criteria in collaboration with the Product Owners and technology team.
• Assist with product backlog grooming and Sprint Planning.
• Elaborate Software Requirements Specifications and Software Design Specifications for new, enhanced and retired applications.
• Assist the Product Owner with user story prioritization before the sprint planning meeting.
• Perform demos for the stakeholders of new functionality that was created in the current sprint.
• Interact with business owners, SMEs, and management team to identify scope and to prepare Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story, and Activity Diagrams to further develop technical requirements and/or functional specifications.
• Ensure that all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.
• Provide guidance to project managers, business owners, development team and subject matter experts to resolve the outstanding issue and action items are taken in the review meeting.
• Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conform to deadlines.
• Participate in development of materials for the new technology and organizing User .
• Perform sprint demo presentations to clients.
• Conduct sprint planning based on new and backlogged requirements.
• Perform task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using Sharepoint.
• Capture quality attributes, external/internal constraints for functional/non-functional requirements.

Environment: SharePoint, Visio, HP ALM, JIRA, Oracle, SQL server, J2EE, JAVA, SVN, MS Windows

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Business Requirement Documents and communicated with client for a sign-off or changes to the document.
• Broke down business problems into actionable user stories for the development team.
• Prepared Statement of Work (SOW) for the client to sign-off, followed up with clients and PM's if changes were required.
• Conducted analysis on existing legacy system to gather business, functional and non-functional requirements and constraints.
• Performed Gap Analysis of existing system to identify drawbacks, bottlenecks, and improvements.
• Created and verified user stories and use case specifications with activity and state diagrams.
• Supported software upgrades and installation of projects including: facilitation of meetings, task scheduling, status, issues, escalations and Change Management.
• Wrote SQL queries to extract data from the database for backend testing.
• Involved proactively to communicate with development team regarding the status and potential impacts on the delivery date and/or expected quality of the tasks and/or the projects.
• Assisted clients in UAT to log any issues or help/guide in any testing efforts.
• Facilitated resolution and communication of cross-functional team on issues and decisions.
• Coordinated with end-users to schedule and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting. Also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Extensively performed Functional Testing and End-to-End Testing.
• Prepared Daily and Weekly status reports by summarizing activities on the project.

Environment: Jenkins, Github, Windows, JIRA, MS Visio, Quality Center, JIRA, SQL PLUS, Oracle, SQL, .Net

Requirement Analyst

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in developing schedules, review testing plans, track and document testing efforts.
• Developed detailed functional and technical requirements from the high-level business requirements.
• Involved in understanding of functionality and design of different applications based on the Requirement Specification Document.
• Investigated system bugs and Interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues and reporting the bugs to concerned parties.
• Investigated requirements and interfaced with developers to resolve issues and reporting the issues to all concerned.
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) after developing and updating Test Cases.
• Created, Maintained and executed Manual Test Scripts in Quality Center.
• Worked extensively with SQL queries for database integrity and data validation.
• Used Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging & generated various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Actively participated in Review meetings and walkthroughs and prepared the defect progress reports during defect meetings.

Environment : SQL developer, Jenkins, Github, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows XP, MS Visio

Project Analyst / Acquisition Specialist

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Drove significant efforts in meeting the monthly requirement of introducing qualified candidates into the on-boarding pipeline.
• Involved in conducting UAT sessions to gain user confidence and approval around the HRIS system.
• Maintained requirements to Requirement Traceability Matrix in order to rapidly assess the effect of changes in requirements.
• Created Test Cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Performed regular informal market trend research intruder to determine outreach strategies for potential candidates and clients.
• Managed end to end recruitment life cycle with the accountability of maintaining seamless communication within all levels within the organization.
• Processed interpreters for language screening, obtaining rate lock, scheduling the and collecting documents for procurement to process the Independent Contracting Agreements.
• Maintained and updated personnel records accurately and confidentially for all staffing activities.
• Investigated problems encountered affecting employee relations by interviewing involved individuals and gathering related documents.
• Initiating and maintaining ongoing professional relationships with a variety of business representatives to promote employer service needs.